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Exact dimension of a text string?

I have some button control neek change it's caption often, so I need to adjust the button size when the text changed. I use CDC::GetTextExtent or CDC::GetOutputTextExtent to get the text dimension, but it seem's the size is not precision.

Any idea or answer is appreciated!

Andrian

You should use CFont or something related whit font instead of CDC .And don't forget that when you change the button's caption,you use "SetWindowText" or "SendMessage" from CWnd but not CDC(related with image)!
What can you do then?
//////////////////////////
1.Specify you Font ( set your own size!)
//////////////////////////
e.g:
CFontDialog dlg;
      dlg.DoModal();
      HFONT hFont ;
      hFont=::CreateFont(
            dlg.GetSize()/5,
            dlg.GetSize()/10,
            0,
            0,
            dlg.GetWeight(),
            (BYTE) dlg.IsItalic(),
            (BYTE) dlg.IsUnderline(),
            (BYTE) dlg.IsStrikeOut(),
            ANSI_CHARSET,
            OUT_DEVICE_PRECIS,
            CLIP_CHARACTER_PRECIS,
            PROOF_QUALITY,
            VARIABLE_PITCH,
            dlg.GetFaceName()//LPCTSTR lpszFacename
            );
      SetFont(m_Font.FromHandle(hFont),TRUE);
//////////////////////////
2.Then,you can approximately calculate the length of your text
(len ~ size*count).
e.g : 'i' and 'm' have not the same size!
like you say "it seem's the size is not precision".
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RAVID

Hi,

Try using
CDC::GetTextMetrics( LPTEXTMETRIC lpMetrics )

This structure will get u the information u want.

Hope this help u out

Cheers

Zoppo

Hi gblxj,

There's an MSDN article ID: Q203099 with code how to calculate the exact extent of a string using CDC::BeginPath, CDC::EndPath and CDC::GetPath.

hope that helps,

ZOPPO

gblxj

ASKER

Thanks all!

It's seem ZOPPO's comment is very interesting, I have never used BeginPath before, I'll try it shortly.

ScottyDawg

What about CDC::DrawText(...) using DT_CALCRECT

Vinayak Kumbar

Hi,

Try something like this
/Get the DC
CClientDC dc(this);

//Have the string
CString str("xwiz");

//Width storage
int PaneWidth = 0;

//Get the length of string
int Len = str.GetLength();

//Calculate pane width from each char width
for(int Index = 0; Index < Len; Index++)
{
char ch = str[Index];
int Temp = 0;
dc.GetCharWidth(ch,ch,&Temp);
PaneWidth += Temp;
}

//PaneWidth will give the size

OR

Do this

TEXTMETRIC txtmat;
CClientDC dc(this);
dc.GetTextMetrics(&txtmat);

CString str("df5656");
int Len = str.GetLength();
Len *= txtmat.tmMaxCharWidth;

Len will give the width.
Try it out.
VinExpert

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gblxj

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>>Child controls uses parent window font

I think this is the point of all.

Thanx!